Style star Iris Apfel rocks year with sales

Palm Beach’s living legend Iris Apfel has had a rockin’ business year.

She’s worked on a collaboration with Happy Socks, was the face of a Kate Spade campaign, teamed with Macy’s INC line to create an emoji keyboard (gotta love the big glasses on the emoji faces) and, just two weeks ago, created a sensation with the sale of a portion of her personally owned jewelry collection on the website One Kings Lane.

The online home-decor seller (which offered her furniture collection last year) advanced the sale with a video interview of the nonagenarian fashionista describing the pieces, including one amber bracelet that Iris said, “is killing me to get rid of. Whoever gets this one is going to be the luckiest.”

Apparently the buyers agreed with her. The collection was almost completely sold out within two hours.

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Holiday glow … Need a gift for a Lilly Pulitzer-loving snowbird who doesn’t want to hit the beach with her winter-white limbs? The brand’s latest beauty collaboration with St. Tropez has just the thing.

Lilly’s partnership with St. Tropez is offering a limited-edition kit of two of St. Tropez’s bronzing mousses (one full-size; one for travel), an applicator mitt and a Lilly-print bikini bag.

Best of all, it’s just $48 in Lilly Pulitzer stores or at lillypulitzer.com

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Show me the money … Pantone has announced its 2017 Color of the Year, a verdant shade called Greenery. The company’s flowery prose described it at as evocative of “the first days of spring,” but really, it pretty much would have caught the eye of Palm Beachers had the company simply described it as the color of money.

New money.

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For the furried … Through Wednesday, 120% Lino in Palm Beach is donating 10 percent of all sales to Big Dog Ranch Rescue, a 501(c3) nonprofit dog rescue charity in Loxahatchee. The purveyor of Italian linen is at 333 Worth Ave.

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